2006-08-01 23:21:22 · 7 answers · asked by i play guitar!... 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Archimedes not only did he manage to hold the romans at bay with his awesome war machines, but how many scientists do you know who ran down a street naked shouting "Eureka" (which in english means I've found it). This guy did it all!
2006-08-01 23:50:34 · answer #1 · answered by GeoChris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galileo Galilei
Contributions:
-invented the telescope, did improve the device, was one of the first to use it to observe the sky
Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's four largest satellites (moons): Io, Europa, and Callisto. He discovered Ganymede four nights later. He noted that the moons would appear and disappear periodically, an observation which he attributed to their movement behind Jupiter, and concluded that they were orbiting the planet
-He determined the correct mathematical law for acceleration: the total distance covered, starting from rest, is proportional to the square of the time.
-Galileo was also the first to report lunar mountains and craters, whose existence he deduced from the patterns of light and shadow on the Moon's surface
-Galileo's theoretical and experimental work on the motions of bodies, along with the largely independent work of Kepler and René Descartes, was a precursor of the Classical mechanics developed by Sir Isaac Newton. He was a pioneer, at least in the European tradition, in performing rigorous experiments and insisting on a mathematical description of the laws of nature.
2006-08-02 06:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by Lutfor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
David Greene - about the string theory...
And also Carl Sagan - related also to science and space... Their videos are great. Carl Sagan from google video. David from NOVA the elgant universe. Whatch that - it is cool!
Karl
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2006-08-02 09:08:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marie Curie. she discovered radioactivity and helped develop the portable x-ray. from this we get the field of nuclear chemistry, nuclear reactors, and all the medical advances
2006-08-02 13:54:12 · answer #4 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The budhha - finding the laws of life
2006-08-02 06:26:10 · answer #5 · answered by veronica 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
albert einsetin
he has made gratest discovery
1>photoelectriceffet for which he get nobel prize
2>special and genral theory of realtivity
3>e=mc*c
2006-08-02 06:48:28 · answer #6 · answered by Abhijit D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darwin. Einstein was quite cool, too.
2006-08-02 06:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋